Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years100
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence75
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories51
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions45
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction37
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls33
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates28
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults26
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study26
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry25
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs22
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling20
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing19
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales19
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study18
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study18
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood18
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence18
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity17
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents17
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis17
Ayahuasca enhances functional connectivity in the third visual pathway and mirror neuron networks: a crossover, multiple-dose functional MRI study16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study16
The speed of race16
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum16
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors15
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion15
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction15
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence14
Functional gradient variations in different neuroticism levels and its correlation with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures14
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness14
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall13
Time-varying brain state dynamics in trait impulsivity and anxiety: An HSMM analysis of resting-state fMRI13
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production13
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth13
Social ‘envirotyping’ the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life12
A comparison of a multivariate neural pattern versus amygdala response for regulation of negative emotion12
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving12
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders12
Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking12
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study12
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation12
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better11
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood11
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan11
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear11
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study10
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem10
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers9
Restricted neural parametric modulation of emotional arousal in autism reveals a core role for the cerebellum9
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years9
Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context9
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy9
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception9
Intrinsic network static and dynamic functional connectivity associated with induced affect8
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study8
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study8
Social priors and mentalizing connectivity across autistic and schizotypal traits8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training8
The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events8
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults8
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study7
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name7
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future7
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity during extinction recall suggests successful extinction learning via mental imagery6
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care6
Prediction Strength Shapes Representations of Social Judgments and Bodily Responses to Prediction Violations6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions6
Correction to: Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG6
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders6
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison6
Covert neural and autonomic signatures of shared perception6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system6
Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females6
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating6
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N1706
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication6
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation5
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching5
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village5
Frontocortical activity and emotional experience in the context of daily life events5
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes5
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces5
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing5
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression5
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue5
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs5
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults5
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality5
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care5
What’s the harm? Examining police contact and amygdala reactivity among black adolescents5
Shared effects of the opioid antagonist naltrexone on first-hand and empathic pain5
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms5
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes5
Phase-synchronized brain connectivity during emotion regulation: attachment as a moderator5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life5
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults4
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes4
Trajectories of interbrain synchrony during teamwork: links with team composition and performance4
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing4
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems4
Oxytocin’s role in dual pathways of dishonesty: distinguishing conformity-driven and self-interest-driven behaviours4
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces4
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain4
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation4
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study4
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages4
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying4
A simple alternative to nondeceptive placebos for reducing emotional distress: encouragement4
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion4
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?4
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality4
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms4
Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG4
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men4
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?4
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences4
RESTING-STATE NETWORKS IN SCHOOL-AGED VERY PRETERM CHILDREN: LINKS WITH COGNITION AND THEORY OF MIND4
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness4
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame4
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts4
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children4
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being4
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level3
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression3
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology3
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report3
Comparison of face attention bias in adults with ASD, ADHD, or comorbid ADHD+ASD3
An Examination of the Impact of Online Feedback and Social Distance on the Implicit Self-Identity of Adolescents: Behavioral and ERP Evidence3
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use3
Differential effects of social feedback valence and self-relevance on brain responses and behaviour3
Investigating the role of executive function in brain responses to infant crying among new parents3
A cross-cultural EEG study of how obedience and conformity influence reconciliation intentions3
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing3
Learn how to be effective: neural and computational insights into charity efficiency learning3
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience3
Differences in risk appraisal and neural activity in adolescents with a history of misconduct3
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan3
Correction to: Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities3
Generalizable neural models of emotional engagement and disengagement3
Event-related brain activity in response to partners’ speech in natural conversation3
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication3
An investigation of the interaction of trait repetitive negative thinking and neuroticism on brain activity during negative self-referential processing: a cross-sectional fMRI study3
Social support and depressive symptoms: the role of childhood maltreatment and brain activity in a moderated mediation model3
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm3
Reward system atrophy relates to heightened feelings of physical closeness in Alzheimer’s disease3
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex3
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach3
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat3
From lab to concert hall: effects of live performance on neural-acoustic phase-locking and engagement3
Time and amount attributes exert distinct neural influences on gain and loss evaluation3
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